Word: dismissals
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...Which leaves us with questions: Why was the court so quick to dismiss testimony about Fornes? involvement - which might have established reasonable doubt of Morales and Montalvo?s guilt? Why did the public defender take so long to come forward? And, perhaps most baffling, why did the Catholic priest go public...
...looked likely to be the first of the former Yugoslavian territories to make it into the European Union. When President Boris Trajkovski visited the White House in March this year, he and President Bush prayed together. And NATO's initial response to the Albanian insurgency was to dismiss the NLA as "murderers in the hills" (to quote the organization's secretary general, Lord Robertson) and vow to support the government while pressing it to make urgent reforms to improve the lot of the country's ethnic-Albanian minority...
...during the Croatian and Bosnian wars. Though U.N. lawyers will not discuss details of the indictment and the chain of command is more difficult to establish in Bosnia, charges could include Milosevic's complicity in the 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica. His lawyers dismiss the case as a form of victors' justice. "The charges are political, so his defense will be political," says a lawyer, Branimir Gugl...
...destabilizing effect. For example, there are efforts currently underway in Belgian courts to indict Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon over the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut - for which a 1983 Israeli government inquiry found Sharon "indirectly responsible." The Israelis may dismiss this as a propaganda exercise, but if the rules of immunity and cross-border prosecution begin to change, such endeavors could complicate efforts to mediate conflicts, critics argue...
...winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, to brag and tell casually self-glorifying lies to his students, like a drunk maundering on his tenth beer at the Blarney Stone. When I heard about Ellis' concoctions, I wanted, out of loyalty, to find a way to dismiss them or excuse them...